Resources

Every item, stimulus, section, test and media file in a tenant, and where you create new ones.

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The Resources page lists a tenant’s bank. Open any row’s page by clicking its ID; it opens in a new tab, so the list stays as you left it.

Choosing a tenant

The Tenant picker at the top shows the tenants you can open, most recently used first. Type to search it. Choosing one reloads the page for that tenant, and the address changes to name it, so you can bookmark it.

Searching and filtering

• Search matches identifiers and titles, and the values in any metadata column you show.
• Type narrows the list to items, stimuli, sections, tests or media (webcontent).
• Click a column heading to sort by it. Click it again to reverse the order. Clicking another heading sorts by that column first, and the column you sorted by before then orders rows that are equal in it. For example, click Subject and then Grade to list each grade’s resources subject by subject. Up to three columns count, and their headings are numbered in that order. The list is paged, and the count of matches is shown beside the toolbar.
• The refresh button reloads the page of results showing.

To begin with, the columns are the resource’s ID (the QTI identifier), its Type, Title, Version and when it was last Modified. When an identifier has been imported more than once, the newest version is listed. You can choose other columns: see Columns.

Columns

Columns opens a list of the columns you can show:

• Shown lists the columns in the grid, in order. Untick one to hide it. Drag a row, or use its arrows, to move it earlier or later. ID is always shown and always first, because it holds the link to the resource’s page.
• More columns lists the rest: the grid’s own columns, and the fields of your tenant’s metadata profile, grouped as the Metadata tab groups them. Tick one to add it at the end.
• Apply puts your choice on the grid. Reset to default goes back to the starting columns.

Metadata columns show the values from every metadata record of the resource, separated by semicolons. You can sort by them, and Search looks in them too. A resource without a value is listed last, whichever way you sort.

A column whose values come from a list, such as Difficulty or a Grade field your profile adds, sorts in the list’s own order (Kindergarten, Grade 1 … Grade 12), not alphabetically. A resource with several values sorts by its lowest going up and its highest going down.

Drag the edge of a column’s heading to make it wider or narrower. AIB remembers the columns, their order and their widths for your account, so they follow you to another browser. Each Type has its own: the columns you choose for items are not the ones you see for tests or for All types.

The grid uses the whole width of the window. When the columns are wider than that, scroll the grid sideways; the ID column stays where it is.

Create menu

Create makes a new resource from one of the tenant’s starter files:

1. Choose what to create: item, stimulus, section or test.
2. Pick a starter. The list and its descriptions are your tenant’s own, managed on Tenant Admin › Starter Files.
3. Give it a Title. The identifier is derived from it, and is fixed from then on.
4. Press Create. The new resource’s page opens in the editor.

Import beside it opens the Import page for this tenant.

Export selected

Tick the rows you want (tests, sections, items and stimuli) and press Export selected to make one QTI 3.0.1 package of them all. Your ticks are kept while you page and search. What each package contains, and where to download it, is on Exports.

Deleting a resource

Delete in a row’s Actions column removes the resource for everyone, with all its versions. It is the only way to delete a media file.

AIB refuses the delete while anything still uses the resource, and lists what does: a test or section that refers to an item, an item showing a stimulus, anything showing a media file, or a draft open on it. Remove those uses first, then delete.